Improvement in bottle-protectors



0. FITZGERALD.

Bottle-Protectors.

N0. 144,082. Patented Oct- 28,1873.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ORRIN FITZGERALD,

OF DEXTER, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOTTLE-PROTECTORS.

Specification forming partpof Letters Patent No. 144,082, dated October 28, 1873 application filed May 13, 11573.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORRIN FITZGERALD, of. Dexter, in the countyof Penobscot and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Instrument for the Protection ofthe N ecks of Bottles, and for making" them up into safer and more convenient packages, which invention I name The Bottle-Protector.77

It consists of a piece of wood ofthe length of the neck of the bottle to Which it is applied, and in other respects corresponding to the size ofthe body of the bottle, with a hole through the cent :r length Wise, so made that the neck is inserted through the hole up to the shoulder of the bottle, the upper end ofthe neck coming flush with the upper end of the fitting in the hole.

The purpose of the invention is to enable protector and neatly the bottle to be Wrapped up in a neater and 

